Improvement in bail-ears



ini'td (Sintra @nicht @twine WILLIAM D. MASON AND ARTHUR T. RICE; OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Leners Parent No. 101,483, dated April 5, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAIL-BARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making-part of the same.

To whom it 'may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM D. MASON and ARTHUR .l. RICE, of the city of Chicago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bailing Earthen Jars; and we do hereby declare that the following is a true and exact description of the same, reference being had. to the accompanying drawings and to the lettels of reference marked thereon forming a part of this specification. 'Figure 1 is a vertical section of our-jar, showing the bail and the two ears, and

Figure 2 is a view at right angles -with fig. 1, showing one earaud the method of attaching it.

The object and nature-of this invention are to provide a suiiicie'nt and proper method or means of practically and economicallyapplying a bail to an earthen jar, whereby it can be used and handled with entire safety.

We make use of an ear with an eye at the top end, for inserting the bail, and at the lower end of the ear e make another eye by turning the end in, as shown in iig. 1.

The upper part of the ear is bent-ont, so as to canse it tn eonform to the projection d and rim of the jar, as shown in tig. 1.

A t or near the point where this bend is made, we

p'unch two holes, h h, through the ear, as seen in fig. 2. We then take small wire b, and draw it around the jar, and pass it through these two holes in the ear. The two ends of the wire are then joined and fastened together. This wire is drawn around the jar immediately under the projecting rim d, as shown in fi l.

gThrough the eye e, at the lower end of the ear, we pass a second wire, and around the jar the two ends are also joined and fastened together.

We employ two ears-one directly opposite the other. This firmly attaches the ears to the jar. An ordinary bail, c, is then inserted' in the ears,.and the jar is ready for use. This enablesl ns to use an earthen jar with Vas much freedom and ease as an Ordinar pail.

Having thus `described our invention, y

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The ear a, with the eye e and holes h h, as constructed and applied.

WILLIAM D. MASON. ARTHUR .'I. RICE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT H. FQRRESTER, JAS. A. OowLEs. 

